Letter to the Editor: Here's where GOP was in 2012

There are huge differences of opinion about how many temporary jobs the Keystone XL pipeline will create, whether it will decrease our dependence on foreign oil, and whether or not it will raise or lower the price of gasoline at the pump.

But there are two things about the Keystone XL pipeline that we know for sure: One, is that more temporary jobs will be created by running the pipeline around the Ogallala aquifer than over it. The other is that in 2012, 230 House Republicans voted down Rep. Ed Markey's, D-Mass., amendment to H.R. 3408 which would have required all the oil transported through the Keystone, and the fuels made from it, stay in the United States.

- Tim Facto, Des Moines

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Letter to the Editor: Here's where GOP was in 2012

There are huge differences of opinion about how many temporary jobs the Keystone XL pipeline will create, whether it will decrease our dependence on foreign oil, and whether or not it will raise or